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vivaciousvivi:
I watched it and journalists are NOT allowed just one question. They can ask as many as they can until Trump chooses to call someone else. additionally which "Sarah" are you referring to please? Sarah Sanders?!
The US constitution upholds freedom of the press and a sitting president should not try to breach constitution simply because he is uncomfortable with lines of questions poised at him. Trump needs to grow up.

BTW, all other press houses (Fox News inclusive!), rallied around CNN and Acosta during this legal process. They all witnessed the exchange and what is unfair, was clear for all to see.

If anyone lied, go see the crap Sanders pulled out after the revocation. Acosta never touched (or as they claimed) grabbed the intern.

Please let's stop being biased.

lilbest4:
Useless judge
I watched that press conference the Jim Acosta lacks respect completely you can't even try that with a local government chairman here

Those of you quoting me I guess you didn't watch the press conference.
CNN is hypocritical fake news media.
There were over 100 journalists present in the conference and each were entitled to a single question
Jim Acosta didn't ask a question but rather he was interviewing Donald Trump on the moral behind his banning of illegal immigrants arguing with Trump that they were not invaders.
He completely disrespected Sarah by refusing to hand over microphone to her while other journalists were struggling to have a chance to ask the president a question

GambaOsaka:
One of the fundamental problems of Nigeria is RELIGION and TRIBALISM.... Take away these two and 50% of out problems is solved. Look around, which country thrives well when the number of churches and mosques surpasses the number of businesses?

codemaniacs:
google the term "african american owned businesses" and check for inc dot com...

goodbye...

codemaniacs:
looter politicians pay people to hail them, this in turn creates a "chain reaction" such that when people see someone they know hailing the politician that person has a 50% chance of supporting that person...

It is called mental conditioning or training the brain...

It's also why the media was created... In order to sway public opinion in their favor...

black american society isn't messed up... don't be deceived by what you see on the media...

white people love to publicize the shortcomings of black people whether in Africa, Australia, America, Europe, Asia e.t.c...

they also publicize "celebrities" in order to groom the brain of black people to aspire to be like their "idols"...

babajeje123:
Can't we retrace our steps back? We can get it right by voting the right person. Durotoye, Sowore & Moghalu are the options to be considered.

codemaniacs:
you're beginning to show your true self with this comment..

the world operates a caste system... that caste system is controlled by white people who have continuously demonised black people..

white people groomed a lot of African soldiers in their military schools when those African soldiers were in their 20s... those are the same politicians that are now and have been "ruling" white peoples "colonies"....

One of the main reasons black people are the bottom is because their "leaders" are pawns of white people and their "leaders" ensure that education, innovation e.t.c are not encouraged...

like you said even if u uplift yourself as a black person, they will always look at you with disrespect so try to stop seeking respect from people will always love to see you at the bottom and make you see yourself as the "bottom of everything good in this world"...

omoelerin1:
You don't know what you're saying.
Do you know the causes of African problems at all? Have you ever wondered why political instability, insurgency, and corruption are the order of day in Africa, and these things are absent in Europe?
It is unfortunate my phone is doing somehow, I cannot type.

Be that as it may, go and do research on politics of underdevelopment or look for any research work on African political economy. Then you will understand the root cause of Africa's predicaments. I give you this as an assignment.

franchasng:
Yes my sister, Nigeria and all black African nations can never advance, its not a curse but because we got it wrong for too long.

1940 - 1990 were the years every nation was transforming their national leadership to organize it well and position it to give room for development, equality and good governance but our so called useless founding fathers were busy advancing their tribal-religious goals, selfish goals, enriching their family and marrying wives anyhow and increasing their number of concubines while forming useless founding fathers.

Nigeria has no hope

Admin401:
Have you talked to the average white person before? Compare that with the average black. There is a stack difference. There's something called Moral Value, and they've reached the peak when it comes to that. It's not something that money can buy, or resources can buy. It's something that is taught to kids who grow up to become like this. It's also the same reason why every single Japanese on the planet are called Senior Citizens of earth. Their moral values are too strong, stronger than the white's even. I've talked to some white people that lived in Japan, and they cannot explain the level of sanity that exist there. Some even say America is a shithole compared to Jap.

babasolution:
i always say this werever i go,the blackman is the problem of Africa,the blackmale is irresponsible,lacks shame,unnecessarily wicked and unproductive

omoelerin1:
Everybody knows that Europe is far more developed than Africa. That's not an argument.

But, @op, your exaggeration is too much! From your narration, it will not be difficult for any good observer to know your personality.
From my observation, I can describe you as a somebody who is suffering from low level/poor mentality, low self esteem and inferiority complex. Are you the first person to travel abroad? Those who have been living in Europe for many years do not even have this kind of your mentality. Many that have made it over there are even long to relocate back home.
I don't really understand what you mean by 'their women are very beautiful, neat and do smile'. Does it mean there are no African/Nigerian women who are beautiful and neat? Does it mean Nigerians don't smile? op, something must be wrong with your brain. But there are many whites that prefer getting married to a black African.

How can you be comparing a continent that is not more than 60 years of modern existence with the nations that have developed for centuries. Did you read history at all? Did you aware of Berlin conference of 1882, where these evil people shares African states among one another? Did you aware that the development that Europeans enjoy today, was paid by Africans. Europeans that exploited Africa of its human and natural resources for more than 50 years to develop their continent.

codemaniacs:
Nigeria's diversity is its problem...

In Ghana, Akan are the majority (at least 40% - 60% of the population), so they would make it work the them first...

Zik tried to rule the SW, he forgot that he had his own home...

the northerners at one point wanted out of Nigeria ( balewa and ahmadu).

Black folks are the most intelligent race, but they have been conditioned to see themselves lower because white people always destroy and get involved when black people seem to be progressing.

this kind of reasoning is what will make black people recover from the "slave mentality"....

Explorers:
We need to learn tolerating and loving our fellow humans first(Tribe/Religion).

Then, we can transfer that to animals.

Lalasticlala

codemaniacs:
even if Africa is not blessed with "visionary leaders", the citizens can also help by having successful businesses BUT like you pointed out about Awolowo, 50 years ago Awolowo was making the SW work for the himself and his people, but the civil war changed that..

Now 50 years later, the same SW that was created mainly to help uplift Yorubas is now over-populated with non-Yorubas due to the leaders of these non-Yorubas not trying to make their regions work 50 years ago....

I hope ugosample reads this....

mosesdejaviano:
I want to take you back to history, Chief Obafemi Awolowo was the one that built the first radio station in Africa, the first Television station in Africa, Obafemi Awolowo University, Cocoa House (tallest building in Africa, built in 1965) and many more.

The radio station he built was ahead that of many countries in Europe.

Where was Singapore, Malaysia during those times? We are far ahead of them because of the kind of leader he is.

It takes a leader like Lee Kwam Yew to take Singapore to that height. What of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum of Dubai.

The problem with Africa lies with it's leadership. Africa is not blessed with great visionary leaders.

If Chief Obafemi Awolowo can attain such height around 50years ago. What happened to the crop of Leaders we have now.

National progress and development lies at the type of leaders that direct its affairs.

The crop of leaders we have presently in the country are not visionary. A leader must be able to see more far ahead his followers. A leader must set a pace for the follower to follow.

We are in the situation where the followers see farther than the leader.

We need a leader that can see into the future of this country and bring a template that people can follow even for the next 50years.

The most funny part is that we have men of astute statue that has great vision but the system won't allow them.

Nigeria can change within a space of 10yrs provided it is fortunate to have a great visionary leader to direct its course.

God blessed this country with fertile lands for us to make a statement in the world.

Switzerland doesn't grow Cocoa but it is the largest producer of chocolate. We that we have Cocoa we still import chocolate from abroad.

We should have been the food basket of Africa and world by the fertile lands we are blessed with in the country. We ought to be exporting our farm products to other African countries and the world at large.

The leaders we have talk about improving agriculture but just with lips. There are no resources provided to revamp the agricultural sector that we should be known for in the world.

One of my teacher during my Masters degree class then told us that the govt of USA have to tell some farmers in South Carolina not to cultivate for that season because there is no place to store the farmF produce. And the farmers were paid.

There many things bedeviling this our great country, but I know with the right kind of leaders, the country will be great.

codemaniacs:
ugosample is also filled with self hate... unless my (this) comment changes his approach in responding to you...

DeepSight:
Listen you would be being highly simplistic if you think it'd just one factor at play. There is rather a Mish mash of many complex factor's.

I have already cited historical and climatic factors. That generally deals with the overall state of retarded development of sub saharan nations. That's in comparison to nations in temperate zones.

However for each country there are other specific factors. The heterogeneous nature of Nigeria is relevant when you are looking at things in comparison to homogenous nations. For example it is relevant when understanding why Ghana is a saner clime than Nigeria. It is also relevant in comparison to small homogenous places like the UAE or Singapore.

There are indeed many homogenous African nations still with retarded development and other factors are at play such as the climatic factor I mentioned and the history of trade.

These matters are deep and complex. So let's not be simplistic. Someone up there said they don't give a hoot how old Britain is. That is terribly misguided.

You are right though about the fact that it all rests I'm the mind. The thing is, schooling a group mind is a task that takes real time.

Mujtahida:
The country is sick and dying. In fact it's a cold dead place, a place where wickedness thrives.

DeepSight:
Bad example. Singapore is a homogeneous society. It thus has not had to deal with the level of conflict that we have had to deal with.

Such major conflicts are powerful stumbling blocks to development and progress. I am not aware that Singapore has fought a Civil War for example. But even if they had, it's still not the same as the level of complexity cannot be compared at all.

We are about 300 different nations crammed into one space. Merely achieving coherence will of course be a challenge.

Nigeria alone is more ethnically and linguistically diverse than the whole of Europe put together and this factor has a bearing on attaining national coherence. A very serious bearing.

So there's your answer. Please compare apples with apples next time. Do not compare us with places like Singapore; Qatar; Bahrain or the UAE.

Taofeekdboy:
The OP might be right with some of his points but at the same time he did a poor work by tagging individual names, cursing each and everyone living in the country. As I have traveled out of the country, I am not happy with the situation of things in my dear country but at the same time, I can’t curse my country of origin simply because of what I saw outside the country, most of this European and American countries were built by their citizens’ taxes, they paid a lot for it before it look like that but here in Naija, there are few who pay taxes and many multi billionaires prefer making money off the country without paying their taxes, how do you expect growth and development in such occasion. Our politicians and leaders are corrupt, we know, but average Nigerian is more corrupt because he hasn’t attained that position yet, dimeji bankole is a perfect example..Nigeria was great before is an excuse, during that time, Nig. Population was 60 million plus, now it’s more than 200 million with the same infrastructures and basic amenities being in place then. I am not against who wants to travel out of the country before some people who won’t read meaning to post starts ranting and abusing me, you are free to leave the country but don’t curse your country, paint her black because of what you see outside the country, we have black people making great things within the country and outside the country, at times there might not be opportunity to showcase your talent in your fatherland, if you find that kind of opportunity outside doesn’t mean you should be cursing your country...there are some of this Europeans migrating to other European countries because of job opportunities and better livelihood but you won’t see them coming online to shattered their country’s images and citizens....Nigeria might not be great now but with our collective effort, she will soon be great.

AngelicBeing:
Why are you laughing, say something about my beloved country

AutoReportNG:
Pray not to raise a child in this type of environment. Most children here have a different view about life entirely.

luluosas:
In the eye of the law, right? No wonder contract marriage abounds in our days

jmaxjohn:
Not supporting any political party.
But floating the naira should lead to a more transparent economy.
The value of the naira would be directly related to how the economy is doing. At least we'd know how shitty this country is, not the lies the govt and cbn are dishing

However, the current state at which the country is, a float would be massacre

kahal29:
I just pity non economist who would not see what you are seeing.

Foreign Investment and capital is hot money which is highly volatile and unstable.

Saintp:
Respect is earned. Things like this really make me sad about Africa but do I blame those who look down on us? The answer us No. Truth be told,Africa is not visible. There is nothing whatsoever that has ever helped humanity that has come from Africa. Is it cars,airplane, technology,internet? Just name it. Even the local manufacturing companies can only work with foreign machines/Input. What of crude oil? Without the whites, our crude oil will rot on the ground.

If it ever goes to a point where every continent will only use what it produces, Africa will thrown back to the dark ages immediately.
Look at Asia, it is absolutely impossible for anyone to look down on them,they have earned that respect.

Africa will only become visible not by the beautiful houses it builds but by what problems they have solved for humanity which everyone all over the world will use or see. But then the giant of Africa don't even have common electricity so what are we going to showcase to the world?

Mizwisdom:
Unfortunately, people like our bro Ugosample love to lick their behinds. Mr.Tarzan this is what they think about you "a relative to Monkeys and Apes"

4601CE:
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